I was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky, but decamped to Minnesota for college and graduate school. I took a photography class in college and dabbled in film photography for a couple of years before giving it up for decades after my professor gave me a C+ because my photos “looked like Lee Friedlander’s photos.” Early retirement and the pandemic rekindled my interest and prodded me to try digital camera photography. Now I’m passionate about using photography to show others the ordinary and not so ordinary things I encounter in everyday life.
Statement:
I like to photograph things that I encounter in my everyday life that others either might not notice, or just simply pass by. Being the son of an architect, I am very attune to shapes, lines, colors and most particularly light. My favorite stage is the ever-changing Street; my street, your street, or the streets I have yet to travel. I strive to capture scenes that take my subject out of context so that viewers are invited into the image or wonder what it really is they are looking at. I do not do composites or blend images or knowingly use AI; my camera and I try to capture real life, which for me is the purpose of photography.
